Factory Unit Labor Costs Revised Down to 0.30 for Q2 2025

Q2 2025 factory unit labor costs was restated from 1.10 to 0.30, a 72.7% downward revision. Anything indexed to the first print — escalator clauses, quoted material adders, budget baselines — now sits 72.7% away from the official number.

• As first published: 1.10 (July 2, 2026)
• As restated: 0.30 (November 6, 2026)

Revisions of this size are routine for survey-based series — early prints are built on partial responses and completed later — but routine does not mean harmless. The first print was published July 2, 2026; the restatement landed November 6, 2026. Both values remain queryable: the vintage archive pins every number this series has ever shown, so a contract that referenced the Q2 2025 print can cite exactly what was published and when.

Source: BLS Productivity and Costs. The revised value is the agency's; the record of what it replaced is ours.